Supreme Court allows states to count mail-in ballots that arrive late

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Supreme Court allows states to count mail-in ballots that arrive late

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday that states may count absentee ballots that arrive after Election Day, provided they are postmarked on or before it, rejecting a challenge brought by the Republican National Committee.


In Watson v. Republican National Committee, the Court reversed a Fifth Circuit decision that had struck down a Mississippi law allowing absentee ballots to be counted if received up to five business days after the election. The RNC and Mississippi Republican Party had argued that federal statutes setting a uniform Election Day require ballots to be received, not merely cast, by that date.


Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett held that the federal election-day statutes regulate when voters must make their choice, not when ballots must be received. She reasoned that an "election" is the act of choosing a candidate, which is complete when voting ends. State law, she wrote, governs ballot-receipt deadlines.


Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberal justices joined Barrett's opinion. Justice Samuel Alito dissented, joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch and, in part, Kavanaugh, arguing the ruling risks voter fraud and eroded confidence in elections.


The decision preserves similar ballot-receipt laws in roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/suprem ... rcna266933

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The Supreme Court just ruled 5-4 in Watson v. RNC that states can count mail ballots arriving after Election Day if postmarked by it.

Barrett and Roberts sided with the three liberal justices. Alito wrote the dissent joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and in part Kavanaugh.

14 states + DC keep their late-ballot grace periods intact for November's midterms. Military and overseas voters were a significant thread in the briefing on both sides.

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SCOTUS in a 5-4 vote, ruled that Election Day doesn’t really mean Election Day

Federal law does not require mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day, SCOTUS says, holding that states may count ballots postmarked by Election Day.. days later.

Majority opinion (written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett)— Joined by: Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Elena Kagan, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Key reasoning: The federal statutes set a uniform day for voting (the act of choosing), but do not require ballots to be received by election officials on that exact day. Historical dictionaries and context show “election” refers to the electorate’s choice, not the physical receipt of ballots. The Court emphasized that states have long controlled the mechanics of ballot receipt, and nothing in the federal statutes “traps in amber” 19th-century practices. It distinguished precedents like Foster v. Love (1997) and noted that policy concerns about fraud or election integrity are for Congress or state legislatures to address.

My Thoughts:

The only silver lining in this is that it highlights how it’s the duty of CONGRESS or state legislatures need to address this now since SCOTUS failed.

If Congress wanted to codify the Watson dissent’s view into law, it should include language that explicitly sets a federal receipt deadline or preempts state grace periods.

Now, there is something in Congress right now that COULD change this ruling on its head— it’s called The Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act (H.R. 7300)… which expands on the Svae America Act.

The MEGA Act explicitly includes a provision requiring that mail ballots be received by election officials on or before Election Day to be counted—even if postmarked by Election Day.

But it’s been sitting since January.. I imagine waiting for the Save America Act to pass, as it is an extension of it.

The decision sucks… but we have some more cards in the deck to play.

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President Trump reacts to SCOTUS saying Voting Day isn’t really Voting Day..

He urges RINOS Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy to vote for the Save America Act.

Traitors to the United States.